The US infrastructure is deteriorating and budgets are being diverted and reduced everyday. The task of maintaining the infrastructure for many countries including the US has became a challenge. With limited assets and archaic inspection methods, how do you manage your maintenance. How do you...

It is commonly accepted that our infrastructure is rapidly aging and has not been maintained properly over the fifty years or so. With many of our bridges having outlived their intended useful life, more attention needs to be paid to conducting proper inspections and...

The current method of inspecting high mast light poles is done by placing an inspector on the ground looking up hundreds of feet through a pair of binoculars. A non industry professional would hardly consider that an inspection. High mast light poles that illuminate our highway systems are...

UPDATING 50-Year-Old Antiquated
Infrastructure Inspection Methods with Robotics The current methods used to inspect roads, cables and bridges are painfully antiquated. This means high labor costs, slow subjective results, and high margins for error. Margins for error that can endanger public...

You would certainly think that there are enough tax dollars, toll dollars,
gas tax dollars, etc. in the till to pave the roads in gold, send every kid to private school & send every family on a two week paid vacation. The National highway system of 41,000 miles cost approximately $30 billion...

Transportation Infrastructure Inspections have been done the same way for the past 50 years. With the expected service life of many of these assets coming to an end,it would make sense to conduct inspections with today's modern technology. By taking out the subjective nature of current manual...

Click on the video below. Blow video up to full screen while viewing. Mouse over for video controls. In addition to the enclosed inspection methods IPC has patented other technologies to help advance infrastructure inspections worldwide. TendonScan™, a post tendon...